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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Francesco Riosa <vivo75@gmail.com> wrote:
> To be able to upgrade a gentoo installation as old as five years is
> interesting and valuable but require an effort that has yet to be
> made.
I suspect it shouldn't be difficult IF you have access to a binary
package respository for the system set. Then you can do an emerge -K
system and get all your core packages updated.
In theory you should be able to install a gentoo stage3 in a chroot
and do a quickpkg @system to generate such a repository.
I'm open to comments as to why this wouldn't work, but it would seem
to be the easiest solution to me.
Of course, this won't get you whatever CFLAGS/USE settings you prefer
- but once you have a working updated system set you could always do
an emerge -e system to rebuild them with your own settings.
Rich